Quotes

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

He who profits by a crime commits it.